Shifting Obsessions

Ivan Krastev (ed.)
Title
Shifting Obsessions
Subtitle
Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption
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9789639241947
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Paperback
Number of pages
135
Language
English
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13 x 20 cm
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List of Figures Foreword Aryeh Neier Preface Acknowledgements When "Should" Does not Imply "Can" The Making of Washington Consensus on Corruption Corruption, Anticorruption Sentiments and the Rule of Law The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection with Georgy Ganev

Ivan Krastev (ed.)

Shifting Obsessions

Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption

This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into political motivations at a time when "combating corruption" is the fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the provocative argument that the current corruption-focused policies are doomed.
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Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and research director of the Politics of Anti-Americanism project of the Central European University in Budapest. He has published widely on post-Socialist transition, corruption and politics of anti-Americanism in Central and Eastern Europe.